Here is how we imagine the PSE board meeting went when they realized simulations of 2018 Eastside electricity reliability requirements revealed no need for the boondoggle Energize Eastside project that would earn their Austrialian owners a Washington State-guaranteed return of a half billion dollars:

Created by CSEE as satire, this cartoon nevertheless conjures a scenario that was no doubt not far from reality. PSE did in fact add irrelevant, invented power flow to Canada (1500 MW) and turned off a dozen peaker plants in Western Washington in its simulated “flow studies” to create phony, skewed results to justify the $200 million Energize Eastside project. It could become the biggest fraud ever perpetrated by a public utility on its ratepayers and on the public in general.